Goal	Progress Give rating of RED, YELLOW or GREEN to indicate your progress toward meeting this goal. Include information on your current progress toward this goal that explains your rating. Refer to assessment tools and data in your workplan to explain how you are using data to track your progress.	Next Steps Outline your next steps toward meeting this goal.
Example: Fellows learn and implement at least 3 new classroom discipline strategies this year.	YELLOW: We have made progress toward meeting this goal but still face some challenges that prevent us from being able to rate this as green at this time. The PD session that we attended was very successful; the exit surveys from Fellows showed that 100% of them acquired at least 2 new classroom management skills in their classrooms. However, 2 Fellows have not seen a decrease in discipline referrals and 1 Fellow has seen an increase in referrals.	- A Fellow in the group who has had a decrease in referrals will observe and provide feedback to a Fellow who has had an increase in discipline referrals - At our next group meeting (on 10/30) we will have a discussion about the various strategies we are each using and the corresponding results
Goal 1: Research different PBL/STEAM models and begin to learn how to implement these models within the classroom starting in August and ending in December.	Next steps will occur during conferences: Sara - UNCA - Oct 11 TJ, Kevin, Mark, and John - Nov. 9 - 11 - National Middle School Conference We will all reconvene Dec. 2 for sharing conference experiences and collaboration. In-progress status: scheduling site visits on the district PD day Feb. 3 or sooner. Feb 1 - School visits for the Dragster from Whitebox learning. Feb 2 and 3 - NC TEA conference in Durham NC March 4 - 6 - NC Middle School Conference Mar 7 - 9 - NC TIES Conference	More site visits and some conferences (Sara to Raleigh). Sara to Evergreen & Silsa. TJ and Kevin to visit schools that run the engineering software. John to visit the buncombe county school that uses a 3d printer.
Goal 2: The research team will create a Bottle Rocket PBL/STEAM that will be field tested during the 2011-2012 school year.	How can we get eggs from one island to the other safely w/o breaking and w/o going into the shark infested water? Kevin and Mark: math (scatter plots, geometry, etc.) TJ: bottle rocket design and manufacturing. John: animating the story of this event. Materials collection is a topic we haven't begun to address. 9-23-11	Testing rocket at 12-21-11 *as long as this remains an optional teacher workday. We will begin to ask for materials to be donated via our facebook page and school website.
Goal 3: During the Spring Semester of 2012, the research team will implement the PBL/STEAM project to groups of students.	Working out the details of how to incorporate this into our current school schedule. TJ and John will work with student groups for four days and then rotate.
Goal 4: Research for teachers to understand how to use the core curriculum to provide a place where PBL/STEAM learning applications fit without becoming an ‘add on subject’ for the curriculum.	Guided Lesson Plan for teachers to use to help them create meaningful project based units. Lesson Overview Guide.doc Details Download 28 KB *Work in progress.	Complete the lesson plan.
Goal 5: Increase students motivation and their understanding of STEAM in the real world to create 21st century learners within the 2012-2013 school year.	To be determined at a later date. Here are results from Magan's observation: NC_Comp_Test_NC_8th_Grade_Computer_Test.xls Details Download 37 KB	Student
Student	Pre-Assessment Average	Post-Assessment Average	Growth
Duncan	46%	absent	no data
Simmons	29%	92%	63
Grant	50%	67%	17
Jackson*	88%	100%	12
Madrid	33%	67%	34
Grant	50%	67%	17
Black	42%	absent	no data
Billings*	88%	100%	12
Total Averages	53%	82%	26

Future PBL ideas and notes from conferences:

• a lot of kids have a sense of entitlement vs a sense of engagement (empowering and exciting them) keeping up with goals and dreams
• expectations relationships and communication
• STEM academy (software company) work closely with microsoft
  • Threshold of 5th - 8th graders for transitioning purposes
  • what do you need to do to provide for your needs. comparing needs vs wants
  • chris wink - the importance of education
  • imagine it project.com
  • be creative and think ill logically
  • john dewy - how we think
  • shop class as soul craft
  • focus on collaboration as a pedagogy
  • analytical piece to a difference is made with data
  • if you're not having fun your not doing it right
  • create a moodle (lms) to prove data
• data on achievement gap
• career choices to focus on the drop out prevention
• www.techedmagazine.com
• SEM groups to be a PR group
• model houses (if i had a hammer)
• model school
• math concepts (fractions, percentages) the real game will help us accomplish
• game show: the price is right
• school garden project
• photos from war: had students write about what they see and they emotions, write a letter home as if they were that solider, bring in veterans and feed them
• find the area of all pieces from a country flag and the overall flag. then create a travel arrangement to determine where to go in that country, foreign currency exchange, weight of your luggage, etc
• mining the chocolate chips out of a cookie with toothpicks
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